The Cardinal
A motion picture that spans two decades of conflict and drama as it tells the story of a young American and his rise to prince of the church.
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DVD Details
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2005
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Tom Tryon | |
| Performer: | Carol Lynley, John Saxon, Dorothy Gish, Robert Morse, Romy Schneider, Burgess Meredith, Cecil Kellaway, John Huston, Jill Haworth, Raf Vallone, Tullio Carminati, Ossie Davis, Chill Wills, Arthur Hunnicutt, Patrick O'Neal & Murray Hamilton | |
| Directed by | Otto Preminger | |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler | |
| Screenwriting by | Robert Dozier | |
| Composition by | Jerome Moross | |
| Cinematography by | Leon Shamroy | |
| Produced by | Otto Preminger |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The scenery is superb, the acting good: yet The Cardinal suggests neither the crises of the period, nor the anguished religious struggles it seeks to portray within the Catholic soul. Though the treatment is reverential, it lacks spiritual fiber.
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Christianity Today
Otto Preminger has successfully put on film a long, absorbing drama about a young Boston Irishman who becomes an ecclesiastical prince of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Maclean's Magazine
The cast, as a whole, is well chosen, to the point that the actors manage to overcome the holes in a story that too many times pretends to be sublime and ends up being ridiculous. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 3/4 --
With an hour cut out of it, this might have been a landmark picture.
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TV Guide
Rating: C --
It's nothing more than a kitsch take on the good and bad of the Catholic Church, but it has the chutzpah to pose as a work of art.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This is an extremely well constructed film, made with a balance that keeps its overflowing plot line in perfect control.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
he end is a great letdown from what Mr. Preminger might have accomplished with the 1950 novel of Henry Morton Robinson. There is no strong flow of spirit through it. Even the melodrama is perfunctory and weak.
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New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
The spellbinding story of a young American's rise to Prince of the Church.
Youthful pride. Yearnings of the flesh. Moments of doubt. The courage of conviction. All enter into a dedicated American's decades-long rise from priesthood to the leadership elite of the College of Cardinals.
Otto Preminger presents The Cardinal, winner of a Golden Globe Best Picture Award and nominated for six 1963 Academy Awards, including Best Director. Typical of Preminger's films, The Cardinal is packed with stars and issues. Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Ossie Davis, Burgess Meredith and Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner John Huston are players in a rich storyline embracing interfaith marriage, abortion, racism and war.
Product Description:
An Irish American priest whose strong commitment to social issues leads him through a labyrinth of church politics and eventually to the upper echelons of Catholic hierarchy as Cardinal. Crossing several continents, this epic traces his path and tests his faith along the way. Based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 29,742
- UPC: 012569724273
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